CONNECTING TO LOVE ~ DAY #8

When you're hurt by someone you love and trust, you might become angry, sad or confused. Love is a necessary precursor to being able to forgive.

Connecting to Love: Day 8 ~ Forgiving

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Psychologists generally define forgiveness as a conscious, deliberate decision to release feelings of resentment or vengeance toward a person or group who has harmed you, regardless of whether they actually deserve your forgiveness.

We often think of forgiveness as an act of mercy or compassion extended to someone who wronged us, whether you are trying to forgive others, forgive yourself.
Forgiving yourself is a crucial element of your welfare. Forgiving others, however, is just as important to getting along in both personal relationships and society at large.

According Steve Maraboli “Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.”

Though forgiveness can help repair a damaged relationship, it doesn’t obligate you to reconcile with the person who harmed you, or release them from legal accountability.
People who feel forgiving don't only feel more positive toward someone who hurt them. They are also more likely to want to volunteer and donate money to charity, and they feel more connected to other people in general.
Forgiving involves letting go of deeply held negative feelings.
We are the ones who receive the most benefit from forgiveness, not the other person.
Forgiveness brings the forgiver peace of mind and frees him or her from corrosive anger.
Forgiving others releases us from anger and allows us to receive the healing we need, spares us from the consequences of living out of an unforgiving heart, and makes us happier.

Forgiveness improves our health - when we dwell on grudges, our blood pressure and heart rate spike; when we forgive, our stress levels drop, and people who are more forgiving are protected from the negative health effects of stress. 

DAYLY QUOTE:

“Without forgiveness, we remain tethered to the person who harmed us... Until we can forgive the person who harmed us, they will hold the keys to our happiness, they will be our jailor.” 

~ Desmond & Mpho Tutu, The Book of Forgiving

ACTION:
If you are willing to forgive but  you have difficulty to forgive yourself and forgive others, from today repeat the following, every time you want by:
«Today I have gained a better understanding of forgiving  others.
 I fully forgive from my heart. 
 I forgive them and I forgive me for hurting others out of  my own hurt  and to heal my relationships with others.
 All forgiveness and healing is possible.» 

Write in a daily journal who you need forgive and why. also write who you need his forgiveness and why.

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DAY 7 «  CONNECTING TO LOVE  » DAY 9

 

CONNECTING TO LOVE ~ DAY #7

The best exercise for the soul is giving.

Giving is one of the most powerful principles of all time. Do you actually do it?

Connecting to Love: Day 7 ~ Giving Love

Giving may refer to "gift", the transfer of something without the expectation of receiving something in return.
Giving is a part of human nature. We enjoy seeing the other person smile, we enjoy helping someone else in some small way.

Anyone and everyone has something they can offer one another. Even without any material gift to offer, sharing your ideas can have immense personal benefits. Ideas can transform others greatly.
By giving out what you have without expecting anything in return, you start living a meaningful life. You find yourself in better health and peace and you achieve more happiness.
Giving is a wealth habit and like all the other wealth habits must be given unconditionally without any expectation of a reciprocal action from the receiver.
Helping others reduces self-centeredness, promotes good health, reduces fears, enables us to make good use of our potential, and helps us find meaning, fulfillment, and purpose.

There is tremendous power that comes with the act of giving, where you simply give from your heart.
When you give from your heart, you give with no expectations. You give only because you want to give, because you want to share what you have and because you want to help somebody.

DAYLY QUOTE:

"Love grows by giving.

The Love we give away is te only Love we keep.

The only way to retain LOVE is to give it away."

~ Elbert Hubbard

ACTION:

Think about all gifts you received today and all you gave.

Close your eyes, make a deep and smooth breath, focus in your heart area, imagine you telling your subconscious mind that you truly care and want to share what you have. You say that you don't care if you don't get anything in return, you don't care if no one notices or if no one thanks you. Imagine you giving a small thing for someone (you know or not), see his happiness, how her are grateful. Feel how you are happy  and grateful too. Commit yourself - all days, all time - to give more love for everyone. Remain in this feeling. Slowly open your eyes. 

Write in a daily journal a list of gifts you received today (material or not - may be a discount in supermarket, a gift, a kind word, a caress....) and a list of what you gave.

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DAY 6 «  CONNECTING TO LOVE  »  DAY 8

 

CONNECTING TO LOVE ~ DAY #6

No matter how long we may live, we'll never stop learning, so why not learn to having love always in our life all the time?!

Connecting to Love: Day 6 ~ Learn to Love

Like I wrote on previous day,  we born with Love, other negative states we learned here. When we were born we came into a loving world, but somewhere along the way many people lose the uncompromising love they showed as children and learn to become distasteful. Their spiritual journey is stopped in its tracks and people conducting their lives in immoral or corrupt ways.

Every minute of every day brings new opportunities to learn something we've never known before.

Learning to love leads to a growing acceptance of our limitations, our inability to change others, and with that comes satisfaction in simply doing our part, the best we can. 

We can only learn to love by loving.
Sustaining love is love that is devoted to learning to love – your partner, your kids, your parents, your siblings – all of the most important people in your life. Sustaining love is the net we need to catch us when the altered state of love beings to fade.

Sustaining love motivates us to work toward creating a climate of love -one that is calm, reasonable ,and respectful. Respecting our separateness is the foundation of human connectedness. Without respect, closeness is impossible.

Once you've been reduced to love, you'll have no trouble establishing and maintaining good, healthy relationships with others. 

DAYLY QUOTE:
"No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background or his religion. People learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."  ~ Nelson Mandela

ACTION:
Notice your love in each and every choice. 
Commit yourself to learn to love all days.
During your moments of quiet, focus on compassion, patience, kindness, gratitude or any thought that makes you feel love.

Write in a daily journal the affirmation: "Everyday I learn  to Love".

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DAY 5 «  CONNECTING TO LOVE  »  DAY 7

 

CONNECTING TO LOVE ~ DAY #5

Who isn’t on some level fearful or resistant to love?
It is only natural that a fear of love can develop in anybody, you, your sister, even the person next to you. Maybe you're afraid of being loved, or you're afraid of falling in love. Whatever the case, and whatever your past experiences that may have caused this fear, you can turn your fear into love.

Connecting to Love: Day 5 ~ Fear of Love

"Simply Loving

Love. Ah, love. Did you know that more than half of humanity does not open its heart for fear of rejection?
Did you know that more than half of all people wait to be loved so that they can love in return?
Did you know that a great number of people stay with their partners because they feel loved, even though they do not love?
Think about this.
Imagine that one person loves another.
Imagine that the other person does not reciprocate this love.
Imagine that instead of continuing to vibrate in that rejection, the first person simply loved. He simply focused on the love he felt. He simply focused on the force of his own vibration without expecting anything in return. What would happen?
What would happen is that this person would not feel rejected, and therefore he would not diminish his own love and live in restriction.
No. He would love.
He would simply love. And that would lift his energy in such a way that eventually he might even end up attracting true love.

Jesus" 
 ~ The Book of Light - Ask and Heaven Will Answer, 
     Alexandra Solnado

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. When we were born we came into a loving world. But somewhere along the way many people lose the uncompromising love they showed as children and learn to become fearful. Fear takes over and traps them. Their spiritual journey is stopped in its tracks. Fear leads to people conducting their lives in immoral or corrupt ways.

The attitudes and behaviors we witnessed and experienced as children often subconsciously shape the ways we think and act as adults. Having someone love us or look at us differently from how we were looked at as kids presents a unique challenge that few of us anticipate in our adult relationships.

Throughout your life, this cruel and conniving thought process will try to lure you away from finding love. Identifying it will help you to stop seeing it as reality or your own point of view. Remember that letting go of your inner critic means letting go of an old identity that, although unpleasant, can also feel safe in its familiarity. Breaking from this critic will rouse anxiety, but it poses a battle well worth fighting. Powering through this anxiety and refuting your inner critic at every turn will allow you to uncover and become your truest self.

It may have felt threatening, even , to open up to someone as a child or show our feelings in our family, but these same defenses are no longer constructive to us in our current relationships. Perhaps, pretending we don't care helped guard us from the pain of feeling neglected or invisible, however that same attitude will make it hard to accept loving feelings that are extended to us today. As we learn how adaptations that served us in our childhood are harmful to us in the present, we can act against these almost instinctive behaviors and, over time, become who we want to be in our relationships.

We can start challenging ourselves to accept love – to return a loving look, rather than turn away in embarrassment. We can approach our defenses with curiosity and compassion and slowly start to change our part that limits our capacity for love.

DAILY QUOTE:

"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not be who does not feel afraid, but who conquers that fear" ~ Nelson Mandela

ACTION:

Focus on the words of Jesus above.

Work on conquering your fear, keeping what you've learned in mind. It won't happen overnight. In fact, you shouldn't try to make it disappear at once, or you will overwhelm yourself. Face your fear as much as possible over a long period of time until it no longer is a fear for you anymore.
Have confidence in yourself and be sure to love yourself.
Be yourself. People will notice if you're trying to be someone else. The best thing you can be is yourself. 
Don't over-think - use your heart.

Write in a daily journal your fears to love. Write the affirmation: "I love and I am loved" 21 times.

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DAY 4 «  CONNECTING TO LOVE  » DAY 6

CONNECTING TO LOVE ~ DAY #4

How much do you love and accept yourself? How does that effect how you treat others? Learn how to love yourself and discover that you are Love. As you let love flow through you, the world mirrors back the love you give to others.

Connecting to Love: Day 4 ~ Love Yourself 

Loving oneself means caring about oneself, taking responsibility for oneself, respecting oneself, and knowing oneself - being realistic and honest about one's strengths and weaknesses.

Self-love begins and ends with you feeling good about you, right here and now. 

How we love and treat other people, is linked very closely to how we love and treat ourselves. 

It is absolutely important to love oneself before loving others because if you do not love yourself,you do not have much basis for loving other people. 

We may feel uncomfortable about the idea of loving ourself.

If you don’t think well of yourself, your manifesting vibration won’t have confidence about receiving.

Every time you do something kind for you, it sends a message to the Universe that you feel worthy of kindness and more kindness comes to you. Every time you show yourself love, you attract the good kind of loving feelings that make you happier.

Learn to Love Yourself, it's never too late to begin to love you. No matter how old you are or how low you feel about you, it's never too late! No matter how many people have made you feel like you don't deserve to love yourself, it's never too late!

An excellent way to begin to love yourself is to do something loving for you. When you treat yourself with kindness, it makes you feel good. The more you feel good, the more you want to treat yourself with kindness. Each loving act, however big or small, is a brick in the foundation of self-love.

Believe that you are complete. There is no person, thing or moment that can complete you. The moment you shift yourself to this frequency, the more likely you are to attract a person and a life that is as complete as you. 

Enjoy your uniqueness, your voluptuous curves, your scars, your imperfections that make you perfect in every way.

You can get out of the habit of focusing on your shortcomings and get into the habit of giving your positive qualities more attention. You can break the habit of treating others better than you and get into the habit of being more loving to yourself. A conscious effort can help you break unloving habits so you can nurture your way to feel better about you. 
Setting boundaries for not tolerating a sarcastic romantic partner, dominating parent, tough boss, mean friend, etc. and not letting what they say or do erode your self-esteem are all acts of self-love.

Every little thing you do to take more control over your life-being on time once, when you’re usually late, cutting down on sugar or cigarettes for one day, making your bed at least sometimes, showing an effort to take vitamins, not using negative words when you make a mistake, saying “no” even once, standing up to someone who treats you poorly. Every little bit of control over your life is an act of self-love because it makes you feel better, at least for the moment.

Faith is the foundation for self-love, no matter what you believe. Believing in something opens up your soul to the beauty of belief and trust. It will build your intuition and help you make decisions based on your gut. When you explore your spirituality it will also take you on a journey to learning things about yourself and those new thoughts, feelings, passions, and raw emotions will make you appreciate yourself for being authentically you.

In conclusion, remember: YOU are the most important part of your life experience. Nothing is more important than seeing yourself as a vital, healthy, beautiful and abundant being who is worthy of all the good life has to offer.

DAILY QUOTE:

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, 

deserve your love and affection." 

~ Buddha

ACTION:

Create a self-love ritual: Every morning when you wake up look at yourself in the mirror and say "I LOVE ME".
At first it may be difficult, awkward, and uncomfortable, but this will change in time.
Celebrate your health, your sexuality, your body, your talents, your passions, develop a new relationship with yourself. Thank yourself often and enough.
Practice this as a part of your morning ritual after you wash your face, shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, etc.

Forgive yourself. Take out five minutes everyday and think of all the moments where you have faltered and felt guilty or angry with yourself. Send love to your heart area and promise to love and forgive the moment unconditionally. Give yourself the liberty to indulge, falter and be naughty. Nobody is perfect and yet everybody is so special.

Get out of your comfort zone, empower your thoughts, explore your dreams, follow your passions - try something new every day (or week). Eventually, you will end up with a long list of passions.

Write in a daily journal the affirmation "I LOVE ME". You could write too in a post-it and fix in a place you look some times during the day.
Make a list of your passions, your dreams. During a month register what you do new for you.

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DAY 3 «  CONNECTING TO LOVE  » DAY 5

CONNECTING TO LOVE ~ DAY #3

The Divine Love differs from the natural love of man with which he was endowed when created, which belongs to all humans, and which they all possess in a more or less perfect condition in this: that the Divine Love is that Love which belongs to or is a part of God.

The goal of Sri Swami Vishwananda mission is to help us realise and live this inner perfection and beauty, and to live Divine Love. 

Let  Sri Swami Vishwananda  touch you, and make you want to become again that which you already are, always have been, always will be - just Love.

Connecting to Love: Day 3 ~ Just Love

Just Love. In short, that is the simple and powerful teaching of Sri Swami Vishwananda. Yes, just love! LOVE is all you need, LOVE is all there is, LOVE is all you have to do. Love contains everything, the entire universe. And everything Swami cares for is the unchangeable bond of Love between Creator and Creation.

The Kingdom of God is made of one thing only: Just Love.
When "Love" is mentioned here, it is non other than Divine Love. Our ultimate goal is to attain it and live it – again. We say "again", because in essence we are already non other than Love itself. The very essence of our being is Love. Love that can neither be understood nor described, and so two words consisting out of eight letters are probably the best way to limit the language of the mind which by its nature cannot grasp the unlimited through mental concepts. However through the language of the heart, through singing songs of Love, through feeling the Lord and His Love for us inside of ourselves, where we can engage in a dialogue heart to heart, we can reciprocate His Love, and we can unite and "understand" him at a deep level, since He is the very essence of us.

Divine Love is intrinsically part of the human heart. It gives without limit, questions or hesitation, to everyone, even one's own Self. Divine Love is much more than mere feelings, and it is much deeper than anything else one can experience. It is not bound by cause and effect, nor by time. It shines not to receive something in return, for it is selfless. Yet, the person who lives Divine Love has joy, happiness, peace, wisdom, and complete freedom of fear and self-imposed limitations. When such Love has taken possession of a person's entire being, we enter a state that can be referred to as "Self-Realised".

"Open up the mind, surrender it to Him, and let the Love which you have inside of you flow. If you have not yet attained this Love, do everything to attain it, because that's who you are and that's what you are here for." 

~ Sri Swami Vishwananda

Divine Love is not bound by any religion, as it is found in all, however one does not need to be religious to experience Divine Love. It does not matter if we are theists, agnostics or atheists. Divine Love is Unconditional Love, and everyone has experienced it at sometime in their life.

Imagine a day in your life where everything was perfect. Maybe it was your wedding day, maybe it was the day your child was born, or maybe it was the day you graduated. For each of us, the day is unique, yet unforgettable. Remember the feeling of complete freedom. No thoughts of the future, not thoughts of the past. Everything made sense, and everything was beautiful. Remember the joy and peace. This day, you were in love. This type of Love (we like to give it a capital L) is different from the love we have only for a person or a thing, which is of temporary nature. This type of Love is for life itself is everlasting. It is true, it is real. It is vast and all encompassing. There is no beginning and no end. It never fades and it is given freely.

Everyone has experienced this Love, and everyone has this Love inside. The only thing holding us back form living Divine Love are the judgments of the mind, primarily judgments about ourselves. If we observe an acorn, would we label it as imperfect? No. We know that the acorn has not reached their full potential, yet we do not judge it as bad, incomplete, or imperfect. The same is for us. We are all perfect and beautiful; unique expressions of life. We may not have attained our full potential, but that does not mean we are not perfect, that we are not worthy of Love. This perfection, this beauty, this Love, cannot be seen with the physical eyes, it cannot be understood with the mind. It can only be understood with the eyes of the heart, eyes of Divine Love.

“…It’s not what we see outside. It’s not what we judge in the outside with our minds, but, for once, truly listen to your heart, really listen to the call of your heart. 

The call of your heart will reflect the call of your soul, and only when you listen carefully to that not listening to the mind, not saying “yes” to the mind, when it says “I want Realisation”, without knowing what it is.

The mind doesn’t comprehend certain things. The mind doesn’t even comprehend what Love is, so how do you think the mind will comprehend what is greater even than Love itself?...” 

         ~ Sri Swami Vishwananda

Source: www.bhaktimarga.org 

DAILY QUOTE:
"Start to Love now, this moment. Open your heart and Love. Let it flow. The more you open up, the more your mind is pure, the more your mind is positive, the more loving you will become, and the more Love you will be able to give."

                                        ~ Sri Swami Vishwananda

ACTION:

After read this session, reflect some minutes about the meaning of Divine Love.
Write the daily quote and focus in the words, forget the outside, your mind. focus on in inside, listen your heart.
Make a deep and smooth breath, close your eyes, focus in your heart area, remember or imagine a day in your life where everything was perfect, all around you is joy and peace... you have the feeling of freedom ... enjoy the moment. continue in this state for the time you want. Slowly open your eyes. Be grateful for the experience to Divine Love.

Write in a daily journal the quote. Register what you feel, as is your body, your thoughts. After the meditation register the changes.

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DAY 2 «  CONNECTING TO LOVE  » DAY 4 

CONNECTING TO LOVE ~ DAY #2

This is our second day and today the theme for reflection is Love vs Religion. 

Connecting to Love: Day 2 ~ My Religion is LOVE

"Religion is a collection of cultural systems, beliefs, and world views that establishes symbols that relate humanity to spirituality.

Religions using the term Love to express the devotion of the follower to a god (or gods). This love can be expressed by either, or all of, prayer, service, good deeds, and personal sacrifice. Reciprocally, a god (or gods) can be described to love their followers and/or the rest of the universe.

Christianity

Most Christians also believe that God is the source and essence of eternal love, "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." (1 John 4:8 NIV)The Apostle Paul glorified love as the most important virtue of all. Describing love in the famous poem in 1 Corinthians, he wrote, "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres." (1 Cor. 13:4–7, NIV)
The apostle John also wrote, "Dear friends, let us love one another for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love." (1 John 4:7–8, NIV)
Saint Augustine says that one must be able to decipher the difference between love and lust. Lust, according to Saint Augustine, is an overindulgence, but to love and be loved is what he has sought for his entire life. He even says, “I was in love with love.” Finally, he does fall in love and is loved back, by God. Saint Augustine says the only one who can love you truly and fully is God, because love with a human only allows for flaws such as “jealousy, suspicion, fear, anger, and contention.” According to Saint Augustine, to love God is “to attain the peace which is yours.” (Saint Augustine's Confessions)

Judaism

In Hebrew, Ahava is the most commonly used term for both interpersonal love and love between God and God's creations. Chesed, often translated as loving-kindness, is used to describe many forms of love between human beings.
The commandment to love other people is given in the Torah, which states, "Love your neighbor like yourself" (Leviticus 19:18).

Islam

Love encompasses the Islamic view of life as universal brotherhood that applies to all who hold faith. Amongst the 99 names of God (Allah), there is the name Al-Wadud, or "the Loving One," which is found in Surah ^{[Quran 11:90]} as well as Surah ^{[Quran 85:14]}. God is also referenced at the beginning of every chapter in the Qur'an as Ar-Rahman and Ar-Rahim, or the "Most Compassionate" and the "Most Merciful", indicating that nobody is more loving, compassionate and benevolent than God. The Qur'an refers to God as being "full of loving kindness."
The Qur'an exhorts Muslim believers to treat all people, those who have not persecuted them, with birr or "deep kindness" as stated in Surah ^{[Quran 6:8-9]}. Birr is also used by the Qur'an in describing the love and kindness that children must show to their parents.
Ishq, or divine love, is the emphasis of Sufism in the Islamic tradition. Practitioners of Sufism believe that love is a projection of the essence of God to the universe. God desires to recognize beauty, and as if one looks at a mirror to see oneself, God "looks" at himself within the dynamics of nature. Since everything is a reflection of God, the school of Sufism practices to see the beauty inside the apparently ugly. Sufism is often referred to as the religion of love. God in Sufism is referred to in three main terms, which are the Lover, Loved, and Beloved, with the last of these terms being often seen in Sufi poetry. A common viewpoint of Sufism is that through love, humankind can get back to its inherent purity and grace.

Buddhism

In Buddhism, Kāma is sensuous, sexual love. It is an obstacle on the path to enlightenment, since it is selfish. Karuṇā is compassion and mercy, which reduces the suffering of others. It is complementary to wisdom and is necessary for enlightenment. Adveṣa and mettā are benevolent love. This love is unconditional and requires considerable self-acceptance. This is quite different from ordinary love, which is usually about attachment and sex and which rarely occurs without self-interest. Instead, in Buddhism it refers to detachment and unselfish interest in others' welfare.

The Bodhisattva ideal in Mahayana Buddhism involves the complete renunciation of oneself in order to take on the burden of a suffering world. The strongest motivation one has in order to take the path of the Bodhisattva is the idea of salvation within unselfish, altruistic love for all sentient beings.

Hinduism

In Hinduism, kāma is pleasurable, sexual love, personified by the god Kamadeva. For many Hindu schools, it is the third end (Kama) in life. Kamadeva is often pictured holding a bow of sugar cane and an arrow of flowers; he may ride upon a great parrot. He is usually accompanied by his consort Rati and his companion Vasanta, lord of the spring season. Stone images of Kamadeva and Rati can be seen on the door of the Chennakeshava temple at Belur, in Karnataka, India. Maara is another name for kāma.

In contrast to kāma, prema – or prem – refers to elevated love. Karuna is compassion and mercy, which impels one to help reduce the suffering of others. Bhakti is a Sanskrit term, meaning "loving devotion to the supreme God." 
In certain Vaishnava sects within Hinduism, attaining unaldulterated, unconditional and incessant love for Godhead is considered the foremost goal of life. Gaudiya Vaishnavas who worship Krishna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the cause of all causes consider Love for Godhead (Prema) to act in two ways: sambhoga and vipralambha (union and separation) - two opposites.
In the condition of separation, there is an acute yearning for being with the beloved and in the condition of union there is supreme happiness and nectarean. Gaudiya Vaishnavas consider that Krishna-prema (Love for Godhead) is not fire but that it still burns away one's material desires. They consider that Kṛṣṇa-prema is not a weapon, but it still pierces the heart. It is not water, but it washes away everything—one's pride, religious rules, and one's shyness. Krishna-prema is considered to make one drown in the ocean of transcendental ecstasy and pleasure. The love of Radha, a cowherd girl, for Krishna is often cited as the supreme example of love for Godhead by Gaudiya Vaishnavas. Radha is considered to be the internal potency of Krishna, and is the supreme lover of Godhead. Her example of love is considered to be beyond the understanding of material realm as it surpasses any form of selfish love or lust that is visible in the material world. The reciprocal love between Radha (the supreme lover) and Krishna (God as the Supremely Loved) is the subject of many poetic compositions in India such as the Gita Govinda and Hari Bhakti Shuddhodhaya. In the Bhakti tradition within Hinduism, it is believed that execution of devotional service to God leads to the development of Love for God (taiche bhakti-phale krsne prema upajaya), and as love for God increases in the heart, the more one becomes free from material contamination (krishna-prema asvada haile, bhava nasa paya). Being perfectly in love with God or Krishna makes one perfectly free from material contamination. and this is the ultimate way of salvation or liberation. In this tradition, salvation or liberation is considered inferior to love, and just an incidental by-product. Being absorbed in Love for God is considered to be the perfection of life."
(Source: Wikipedia)

In conclusion, Love is present in all religions and have a  essential role, but more important is what we have in ours hearts.
As Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan (was an Afghan Pashtun political and spiritual leader known for his non-violent opposition to British Rule in India) said “My religion is truth, love and service to God and humanity. Every religion that has come into the world has brought the message of love and brotherhood. Those who are indifferent to the welfare of their fellowmen, whose hearts are empty of love, they do not know the meaning of religion.”

DAILY QUOTE:

"I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple." ~ Rumi

Action:

Focus on Religions and its meaning. Why Love  have a principal role in all of them?
What means to you God (universe or other force you believe)?
Meditate in the sense of the daily quote and see all human beings like a temple of God, including you. Certainly after some minutes you feel in peace and much more connecting to God (universe or other force you believe).

*Note: The intention of the quote isn't leave your religion, but live the essence of your religion - The Love to God  and to the others human beings.

Write in a daily journal what you think about Religions and your experience before and after the meditation of the action of today.

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CONNECTING TO LOVE ~ DAY #1

Connecting to Love

LOVE is all around us all the time, in fact, Love is our essential nature.
When we treat ourselves in an unconditionally loving way, this energy radiates from us and connects us to others.

Everiday is Love day, but on those busy days, for differents reasons, sometimes, we forget this precious power we have.
That was my intention a gentle, deep-tissue transformation through love...
Considering that February is the month of LOVE, over the next 28 days, you’ll receive a daily theme about Connecting to Love with an in-depth exploration of its meaning, along with specific examples you can use right away to deepen your personal experience.

The mind transcends the meaning of the words through the repetition, finding assurance, permanence and finally – a wondrous quiet. The daily practice allowing you to experience your own nature. For the next 28 days you will be able to immerse yourself in the beautiful and profound wisdom of LOVE, enabling your mind quiet and you’ll experience love growing in every aspect of your life.

Each day I will present you an introduction, an inspirational quote and an action, then concluding with a writing in a daily journal.

That will help you to reinforce your desire to live life in unconditional love, how opening your own heart allows the other person to open theirs, how to embrace change, opening up to more loving relationships and of discovering a new way of seeing others, while beginning to accept, forgive and love yourselves, discover what it really means to Love without conditions, judgments, or disappointment, identify and appreciate the various ways love reveals itself to you across your life and find how Love can guide you daily to creating miracles in your life...

I recommend that you choose one or more of the themes that especially resonates with you and continue to reflect on it after this month. Doing this will offer you the possibility to deepen your personal experience. You will also discover when your heart is full, our world becomes a more loving place.

Experiencing such powerful changes in your lives simply by taking the time to meditate on love.

Begin with this 28 beautiful days that are ALL ABOUT LOVE. Thank you with all my love for joining ShiningSoul and me on this fabulous journey of unconditional love.  Please know you will always have a special place in my heart and that I look forward to spending more precious time with you, May the Light be always with you, Maria Arc

Get ready for a profoundly moving experience that will permanently shift the way you look at Love...

Connecting to Love: Day 1 ~ What is Love

Love refers to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes.
It can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion and affection. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals.

Love is one thing which as different meaning in various department. If we look into dictionary for love its just affection and attachment between men and women.

In scientific aspect love is something different and love is combination of biology, chemistry, physics,social & physiology.

Love can be stated as old as humanity, Its one of the few thinks living on Earth even before caste, religion, country, race etc started.

Love always been emotional and cheerful matter.

Ancient Greeks identified four forms of love: kinship or familiarity, friendship, sexual and/or romantic desire (eros), and  self-emptying or divine love (agape).

Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of romantic love. 

Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or sumbioses of these states.

Spiritual theories consider love to be a gift from God; and theories that consider love to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a mystical experience.

Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

Love may be understood as a function to keep human beings together against menaces and to facilitate the continuation of the species.

This diversity of uses and meanings combined with the complexity of the feelings involved makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states.

DAILY QUOTE:

"WHAT IS LOVE? It is the greatest suicide in the world! Love means committing suicide: the suicide of the ego. Love means dropping the ego. That's why people are so much afraid of love. They talk about it, they pretend also. They manage to befool others and themselfs too that they love. But they avoid love - because love requires you first to die; only then are you resurrected" ~ Osho

Action:

Today, and for the next days you focus on the word "LOVE" and "EGO", what means for you and what sensations you feel. What kind of feelings you feel about you and others.

During your moments of quiet, feel love in your heart. This love began expanding for all body, and after for outside of your body and contagious all people around you. Repeat this exercise during your day.

Write in a daily journal your thinking about Love, your experience and others notes you think is important.

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